He did the same with “Ryan’s Daughter” (1970), in which Mr Lean wanted nothing Irish: not only sliding in the rhythmof a suppressedgig in the title theme, but scoring for eightharps.
" The title track has the rhythm of turning wheels, and Mr. Earle sings about "the ghost of America watching me, through the broken windows of the factories, naked bones of a better day, as I rolled down the low highway.